Bagikan Kabar Baik | Sharing The Good News

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Pembacaan Alkitab: 2Raja-Raja 7-8

Ketika Israel di kepung oleh raja Aram dan tentaranya, mereka sampai hampir kehabisan bahan makanan dan sampai-sampai harga makanan melonjak tinggi. Tetapi melalui nabi Elisa, Tuhan menyampaikan kepada raja Israel bahwa tidak lama lagi itu akan berlalu. Dalam ksiah ini ada juga 4 orang kusta yang berada di depan pintu gerbang dan mereka memutuskan untuk menghampiri perkemahan orang Aram, sebab pikir mereka, jalan manapun yang mereka pilih, pasti akan mati. Tetapi sesampainya mereka di sana, justru tidak ada orang Aram sama sekali, tetapi segala barang milik mereka ditinggalkannya. Sebab Tuhan telah membuat orang Aram kabur melarikan diri oleh karena mereka mendengar bunyi kereta, kuda dan tentara. Mari kita lihat akan 4 orang kusta ini. Ketika mereka sampai ke perkemahan orang Aram, mereka menikmati segala makanan, minuman dan barang-barang yang ada. Secara manusia, sebagai orang buangan dan yang dikucilkan oleh karena penyakit kusta mereka, 4 orang kusta ini tidak menyimpan kabar baik ini untuk dirinya sendiri saja, tetapi mereka memutuskan untuk membagikan kabar baik ini kepada raja Israel dan rakyat yang ada di dalam kota.

Marilah ktia belajar dari 4 orang kusta ini. Walaupun mungkin orang-orang di sekitar kita mengucilkan kita, sepertinya membuang kita dan tidak memperdulikan kita, kita tetap perlu untuk membagikan kabar baik kepada mereka. Kita tetap mengasihi mereka dan ingin mereka juga merasakan berkat yang kita dapatkan. Oleh karena itu, marilah kita bagikan kabar baik Injil Keselamatan yang kita telah terima dan percayai kepada orang-orang di sekitar kita. Janganlah kita menyimpannya untuk diri kita sendiri saja.


English:

Bible Reading: 2Kings 7-8

When Israelites was surrounded by the Arameans, they almost ran out of food and that the prices went up really high. But through the prophet Elisha, the Lord said to the king of Israel that soon it will all be over. In this event, there were also 4 lepers who were in front of the gate and they decided to go to the camp of the Arameans because they thought that they were going to die which ever way they choose. But when they arrive at the camp of the Arameans, there were no one there but all their belongings were left behind. Because the Lord had made is so that the Arameans fled because they heard chariots, horses and armies. Let us look at these 4 lepers. When they arrived at the camp of the Arameans, they enjoyed the food, drinks and the things left by the Arameans. Logically, as a group of people who were an outcast and rejected because of their leprosy, they did not keep this good news to themselves, but they decided to share this good news to the king of Israel and the people in the city.

Let us learn from these 4 lepers. Even though maybe the people around us rejects us, as if we were thrown out and no one cares, we still need to keep on sharing the good news to them. We still love them and want them to also experience the blessings that we received. Therefore, let us share the good news of Salvation that we have received and believed to those around us. Do not keep it to ourselves.